Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another Crimson worry is the availability of Captain George "Bunks" Burditt. The rubber mask which the Varsity captain is forced to wear because of a broken nose hampers his visibility considerably, and it is possible that he may not see much action. If he doesn't play much, either Hugh Hyde or Mike Fansler, slated to start at the guards, will move into his pivot post. Frank Bixler, high scorer against B.U., gets the starting nod at one forward, with either Dean Hennessey or George Dillon as his running mate. Mike Keene is the third guard...
Exposing the bare facts that her balloons were getting thinner and thinner, Sally Rand told a delegation of reporters who thronged her dressing room in the R.K.O. Theater in Boston Saturday night that the rubber shortage was affecting her more than any one else in America...
...While the U.S. sweated to get along with synthetic production, mouth-watering news came from Singapore: the price of Far Eastern rubber (22½? a Ib. before Pearl Harbor, when it was America's chief source of supply) is less than 1? a Ib. Reason: now that the Japs control practically all the natural rubber there is, they cannot find a buyer capable of taking it away...
...conquest, Japan now finds herself in possession of just about all the raw materials she needs for war. Copper is the only apparent shortage, and she has plenty of aluminum to substitute. She has crude oil to spare and soon will have refineries at work. She has enough rubber to sell some to Russia'. She has acquired iron in Kcjrea, Indo-China, Malaya and the Philippines-enough for an annual steel production of something less than 8,000,000 tons; coal in Korea and China; lead and zinc in Burma; bauxite in Malaya and The Netherlands East Indies; chrome...
...anesthetic cone, Lipes used a tea strainer through which the patient breathed ether; for the incision, a broken-handled scalpel from the ship's medicine chest; for antiseptic, alcohol drained from torpedoes; for muscle retractors (to hold the incision open), bent tablespoons. Oversize rubber gloves encumbered Lipes. After cutting through layers of muscle, he took 20 minutes to find the appendix. "I think I've got it," Lipes finally whispered. "It's curled around the blind gut. . . . More flashlights, another battle lantern...